It appears that there won't be a qualification sessoin.?

[Tim_racefan]

I don't have any confirmation of this, but I'm guessing track activity is done for the day. That would mean that the cars will start according to last years points. Its an unfortunate set of circumstances.

I hate the situation that put us here, but atop of everything going on here, I'm still concerned for Donnie. I hope he can be fit enough to drive. He would start 13th or 14th.

God speed Jeff C., and everyone in the RSCA community.

We still have a race to run tomorrow. I am praying that it is a clean one.

[cheeverfan]

Couldn't have said it any better. Very nice post.

[Mackie]

I agree, the Fox News channel showed a shot from above the scene and it appears that they are still on a hold for an investigation. I didn't like what was shown!

My thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of Jeff Clinton! RIP Jeff

[JoeBob]

Even if the track is cleared by the local police, is anyone at the track really in the mood to get back to business?

Usually, when there is a fatality, the track stays quiet for the rest of the day, out of respect.

I think (hope?) they'll let everybody go home, get some rest and get back to business on Saturday. Qualifying isn't that important.

[Mackie]

I agree JB, Eric, can you enlighten us?

[mnkywrch]

IRL T&S shows quals at 3:30 and final practice tomorrow morning.

[sf-indy-fan]

Not that it means a whole lot when compared to a man's life, but where would the Penske, Ganassi, & Nunn drivers start if there were no quals? This might be why they're going to go ahead with quals today.

[KnockOff]

3:35pm?

[JoeBob]

Obviously, they won't be needed, but here are the 2001 Entrant points from ( http://www.indyracing.com/stats/2001/entrant.php )

Pos. Entrant Car # Points
1 Panther Racing 4 503
2 Hemelgarn Racing 91 398
3 Kelley Racing 8 355
4 Curb-Agajanian/Beck Motorsports 98 313
5 AJ Foyt Enterprises 14 308
6 Galles Racing 3 287
7 Treadway-Hubbard Racing 21 284
8 Cheever Indy Racing 51 261
9 Team Menard 2 245
10 Bradley Motorsports 12 242
11 TeamXtreme Racing 88 239
12 Heritage Motorsports 35 238
13 Dreyer & Reinbold Racing 24 237
14 AJ Foyt Enterprises 11 228
15 Vertex-Cunningham Racing 55 215
16 Sam Schmidt Motorsports 99 206
17 Kelley Racing 28 205
18 Cahill Racing 10 196
19 Walker Racing 15 188
20 Galles Racing 32 188
21 Zali Racing 81 101
22 Treadway-Hubbard Racing 5 76
23 Hemelgarn Racing 92 72
24 Tri Star Motorsports 6 69
25 Penske Racing 68 64
26 PDM Racing 9 56
27 Penske Racing 66 46
28 Conquest Racing 34 45
29 Jonathan Byrd TeamXtreme Racing 77 43
30 McCormack Motorsports 30 40
31 Racing Professionals 18 37
32 Galles Racing 31 36
33 Team Green 39 35
34 Target/Chip Ganassi Racing 43 32
35 Dick Simon Racing 7 32
36 Target/Chip Ganassi Racing 50 30
37 Target/Chip Ganassi Racing 33 28
38 Treadway-Hubbard Racing 26 20
39 Indy Regency Racing 16 19
40 Blueprint Racing 27 12
41 Sam Schmidt Motorsports 44 12
42 AJ Foyt Enterprises 41 9
43 Cahill Racing 19 5
44 Heritage Motorsports 36 2
45 Target/Chip Ganassi Racing 49 1
46 Cheever Indy Racing 52 1

It is probably safe to assume that teams that changed numbers didn't lose their entrant points. So the lineup would have been something like this:

1. Sam Hornish, Jr
2. Buddy Lazier
3. Scott Sharp
4. Billy Boar
5. Donnie Beechler
6. Ricky Treadway
7. Eddie Cheever
8. Jacques Lazier
9. Robbie Buhl
10. Eliseo Salazar
11. Anthony Lazzaro
12. Al Unser, Jr.
13. Robbie McGehee
14. Billy Roe
15. Helio Castroneves
16. Tyce Carlson
17. Gil de Ferran
18. Laurent Redon
19. Jon Herb
20. Jeff Ward
21. Tomas Scheckter
22. Hideki Noda (?)
23. Felipe Giaffone (?)
24. George Mack (?)
25. John de Vries (?)
26. Alex Barron (?)

I'm not sure exactly how the last 4 would line up, since none of their owners have any entrant points from last year. The rest of the lineup is what it probably would have looked like.

[jrandrew00]

There is a law here if anyone dies they have to do a full out investigation and they did it as fast and good as they could. I didn't know about it till Janet McGehee told me (cause RBM and Jeff were friends) and then that is when it starting going around at the track about Jeff.